It’s not like he didn’t warn us that his goal was to fundamentally transform America – but most of us didn’t think that meant wrecking the economy, killing the golden goose, giving away the farm and generally screwing the pooch. But here we are and here are the top ten things Obama owns – despite him blaming everyone else – he built them: 10. Food | Read More »

(Promoted from the diaries) The story of Jay Gatsby can impart wisdom to our life goals in a particularly powerful manner. Though I was not disappointed by the new adaptation of The Great Gatsby, neither was I enthralled. Instead, the movie seemed to begin with a forced storytelling of rough scene cuts that eventually found itself understanding the deeper meaning. It must be admitted that, by many accounts, | Read More »

(Promoted from the diaries) The story of Jay Gatsby can impart wisdom to our life goals in a particularly powerful manner. Though I was not disappointed by the new adaptation of The Great Gatsby, neither was I enthralled. Instead, the movie seemed to begin with a forced storytelling of rough scene cuts that eventually found itself understanding the deeper meaning. It must be admitted that, by many accounts, | Read More »

I’m using another diary as a jumping-off point for this. I hope the author doesn’t mind. From this diary: It is open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh show and a caller makes the case that there is no hope to defeat Obama. So Rush asks him, “do you think that the administration will continue to deficit spend and that the debt will continue | Read More »

Last month, Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman, Reince Priebus, launched an initiative focused on enlarging the Republican Party and improving future GOP campaigns. Known as the Growth and Opportunity Project, it is chaired by five Republican leaders who will be charged with reviewing past practices and making recommendations. The recommendations will involve the following key areas: 1) Campaign mechanics and ground game 2) Messaging 3) | Read More »

I call this Day 17 because the Fiscal Cliff Deal was signed on January 1st and we still have seen no coherent vision, goals, or plan from our GOP leadership. I will give them a small pass since they are having their Retreat but I expect something next week. Here is a Press Release from Republican leadership I would like to see. It may not | Read More »

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman, Reince Priebus, has launched an initiative focused on enlarging the Republican Party and improving future GOP campaigns. Known as the Growth and Opportunity Project, it will be chaired by five Republican leaders who will begin by reviewing past practices and making recommendations. The recommendations will involve the following key areas: 1) Campaign mechanics and ground game 2) Messaging 3) Fundraising | Read More »

Why a People’s Grand Jury? Abraham Lincoln said in the Gettysburg address” …that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Our freedoms are being taken away. We don’t have a federal “government of the people, by the people, for the people”. For decades we | Read More »

I am tired of being a dumb conservative. I call myself dumb because I could be smart when it comes to conservatism but I haven’t been in the past. Neither has our leadership. Recently I decided to get smarter and to pinpoint 3 main issues with the current state of conservatism and then offer solutions. In my opinion if we improve in the following 3 | Read More »

Shaun Donovan, Secretary of the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department, writing in the Shreveport Times, way back in March; focused on her passion from Obama’s Winning The Future (™) speech. President Obama has made clear there is no greater economic policy than one that invests in our children’s future and helps America out-educate the world. That’s impossible if we leave a generation of children | Read More »

Yes despite all the clammer about American decline I still think and believe that america will edge out in the end. Yes the odds are against us were in debt to China,we have three wars,our debt is at least double our GDP and of course “2012” is coming. Yet I do think we will be getting a tsuami in 2012 not the one in 2004(may | Read More »

Conservative politicians: When you speak about President Obama’s fiscal policy being like Europe’s, you are often unknowingly promoting Europe’s big government policies. This is because Americans don’t understand Europe’s economic faults. Please describe them each time you compare Obama’s policies to Europe. Here are some ideas for your expanation of Europe’s economic system: Obama’s policies are moving America toward big, intrusive government which cripples economic | Read More »

I’m still new to posting here, so forgive me if I don’t have the format completely down yet. My name’s Luke, and I’m a Canadian. Yes, I hail from the land of banned books and a joke of a “Human Rights Tribunal” that can smack down free speech (and often does). See if any of this sounds familiar. My country was once great. In 1947, | Read More »

“It’s a mad house, a mad house!” These were the words shouted from the lips of Charlton Heston in the 1968 movie release, Planet of the Apes. Heston, who played the character of astronaut George Taylor, found himself in a future Earth where apes ruled the land and humans, and their past culture, were considered evil taboo. Ah, science fiction, such a wondrous escape from | Read More »